The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-05-05

some people low enough cra0ona;k4s m
in this society-people who siaN1
trust their reason instead of Si:T' NkSlSS&
nater-to~ credit me with VI H1T"EESMaFlgg
them letters. Iknow neither
of you two could. After I've loved
girl and give her up to my friend,
and bear neither of them any grudge
because they obeyed nater"- he stopped
and seemed to swallow the Adams
apple in his lean throat-"why, Icouldn't
go live on revenge instead Of this kind
of game sorrow that's such sweet, cruel
pain"
"You couldn't, Mark, and be in your
right mind" added Dave Hightman, land
l know your mind is right because it's
your heart that's hurt and not your con-
ceit."
Goodbye to you both," said Mark
Hanson, passing his wrist across his eyes.
''The longer you stay yer the worse
feel So FIJI keep these letters and my old
dog, and bring both back to you, Carrie,
in a few days"
Goodbye, Mark when you have found
the man, take your horsewhip and fog
him. But must go and see it DONE"
'1'll bring the whip if find the rogue,
Carrie, and you shall tell me how long to
ply it,"
Dave Hightman rode quietly home with
Carrie, exercising no authority, but say
ing the homely speech that It wasn't well
to make an appointment with trouble
when 1t would be sure to call at ones
home.
They found poor grandfather working
at his memoirs, over the duels and intrigue
of the past and the era of good feeling
under Mr.. Monroe, which he never could
"Granny," cried Carrie Devoe in high
spirits, tive are going to find the anony-
nous letter writer! Mark Hanson has
got the letters"
"Well," said grandfather, II hope you
viii; but l never heard of hunter
becoming distinguished as special mail
agent
After they had gone Mark Hanson sat
on the porch of his old, neglected house,
with Negrofoot in his lap, and had quiet,
bOyish cry over the loss of the large, ma
ture, br0wn-eyed woman who had 90 dis
turbed his life, over his vision of ap-
preaching age without any comforter but
dogs, chickens and rabbit traps, and also
over his neglected opportunities of school
and the money making trades.
He had heen left a little independence,
possessed part of 1t still, never knew av-
arice, consulted such tastes "a he had, and
therefore was no cynic II he had failed to
acquire either glory or his girl.
A movement Of the Talbot hounds
nose from side to side attracted the OBJ
servant hunters eye, and he saw that the
package of anonymous letters had been
held against the animals muxxle.
THAT paper has mean ordor," Mark
Hanson observed. "It's not been well
washed in chloride of lime at the mill, OF
the rosin and alum they use there hain'i
got the chloride of lime out of it,"
He passed the paper over the blood
hounds nose again and again.
Carries bloodhound was not of the
misnamed Spanish mastifis which hunted
Cuban slaves, but 3 real bloodhound
black -and-tan in color, slow but steady
In pursuit, developed like q tobacco
chewer, w-legged as country tailor,
fierce In nothing, merely maryelOusly
scented and only more solemn than q
foxhound. In all respects of civility Ne
gr0fo0t was . Quaker, except in the well
known Quakerly scent for either the
spirit or the substance ON which his per
cepti0ns have been set. He had loved
Mark Hanson; he loved Carrie DevOe,
too, but Mark had trained him, and edu-
cation a. well - inclination now kept
him with the discarded lover.
'Negerfootr r exclaimed Marx, after be
bad appeared 70 leave the contcnts Of the
| anonymous letters 70 the hounds intelli-
| gence. you and NJ + too Old 70 leara
anything new. ] ca ~ . good saays
end you can follow 4 stsopg w. That's
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